SIGMOD 2009 Programming Contest Resykts

SIGMOD 2009 Programming Contest Results

The task for the SIGMOD 2009 programming contest invovled designing a main memory transaction database index that can support inserts, deletes, updates, scans, and key lookups. See the contest description for more information.

Elizabeth Reid, an MIT graduate student, wrote a masters thesis describing the design and results of the contest.

There were teams that were "finalists" who were invited to present their designs at the SIGMOD 2009 conference. The teams are listed below, with links to their code and implementations:

Contest Finalists

Team bcagri (Cagri Balkesen - Graduate Student), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
More information about Team bcagri's implementation.
Team clement (Clément Genzmer - Undergraduate), Ecole polytechnique, France
More information about Team clement's implementation.
Team dexter (Matthias Böhm, Peter Benjamin Volk, Benjamin Schlegel - All Graduate Students), TU Dresden, Germany
More information about Team dexter's submission
Team ICUIUCI (Mingyan Gao, Shengyue Ji, Wen Pu - All Graduate Students), U. California, Irvine and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
More information about Team ICUIUCI's implementation
Team qbolec (Jakub Łopuszański - Graduate Student), University of Wrocław, Poland (code not provided.)

The contest winner was Clément Genzmer. Congratulations Clément!

The contest was supported by a grant from the NSF (IIS-0848727). Prize money was donated by Microsoft and Vertica Systems.

Samuel Madden (madden@csail.mit.edu), MIT
Michael Stonebraker (stonebraker@csail.mit.edu), MIT

Please contact us at sigmodcontest09@nms.csail.mit.edu.